Posts Tagged ‘communication’
February 21, 2012
Chronic and serious illness is difficult to live with in isolation. Living with inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, or another digestive disease people on this site commonly have is certainly tough on your own body, but it is also tough on those around you.
Embarrassing illnesses are embarrassing not because of how they make us feel personally, but because of how we feel when others know about the illness. The natural tendency of most people is to keep things to themselves, to share their struggles only when absolutely necessary.
I know from personal experience, and from talking to so many of you, that trying to fight your illness alone is often not good enough. It’s important that you enlist those around you to help you in your struggles.
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Keep fighting,
~Dennis
Posted in C3Life Blog | Tagged cancer, colitis, communication, Crohn's, disease, Family, friends, health, support, ulcerative | Leave a Comment »
February 2, 2012
Last week I talked about what it means to be a PhD student in the social sciences, and what this stage of schooling looks like. I’ve mentioned before that I am studying health communication, but I find that this term is incredibly vague. Today I will talk about what health communication research is, and what it means to me.
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Keep fighting,
~Dennis
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January 25, 2012
My second semester of my doctorate program recently began, but instead of talking vaguely about how school is going, and I want to get specific. What exactly is involved with getting a PhD, especially in something as nebulous as communication? When I tell my friends or coworkers or family or people I meet that I’m working on a PhD, I usually get three responses: slight awe for earning an advanced degree, followed closely by thinly veiled revulsion that I actually chose to go to more school, and then confusion: what does a person do to get a PhD.
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Keep fighting,
~Dennis
Posted in C3Life Blog | Tagged communication, doctorate, graduate, health, phd, research, school | 1 Comment »
April 14, 2011
Last week I was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at a communication convention, and it sure was a great time! The convention was attended by over 800 communication scholars and graduate students. It was the first time I’ve attended a professional meeting like this, and I learned a lot in the five days we were there.
Five graduate students from NDSU went, and four of us presented papers. I presented two papers: both related to my work in the IBD community.
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Keep fighting,
~Dennis
Posted in C3Life Blog | Tagged bowel, colitis, communication, crohn, CSCA, disease, health, ileostomy, intestine, Milwaukee, Ostomy, support, uc, ulcerative | Leave a Comment »
